Bethesda... y u do dis?
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·2020-05-05
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ltx 2019 starts tomorrow that's the biggest piece of tech news today and
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we've wait what is this i don't know there's like a
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herd um oh a lot of
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people are here friends alex i i don't have that many friends
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not since i moved at west at least apple has acquired Intel's mobile modem chip
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business for cool one billion dollars
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the announcement follows rumors that apple was considering buying the
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majority in Intel's modem division as a way to avoid working with qualcomm and
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that's understandable given that apple has been enrolled and an obscene number
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of copyright lawsuits with that company in the last couple years falcom and
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apple reaches settlement in april to drop all pending litigation but i'm sure
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the ordeal has left a sour taste in both parties mouths
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like a like a bitter ipa
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apple's actually getting a pretty sick deal here Intel originally wanted
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several billion for the acquisition but their modem business was bleeding money
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so they had to sell it fast and after announcing they'd make their own 5g
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modem apple needed the resources analysts are predicting the acquisition
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will enable some apple devices to have 5g capability in 2022. at which point
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apple can post a picture on instagram to show qualcomm they're just doing fine
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actually it's qualcomm it looks busted okay don't get it twisted
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the merger of u.s cell carriers t-mobile in sprint has been approved by the
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justice department despite opposition from 13 states and the district of
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columbia wall proponents of the mergers say that the two companies will now be
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able to deploy 5g network that covers 99
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of the population the problem is the deal brings down the number of major u.s
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carriers from four to three so as part of the deal the doj is requiring
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t-mobile and sprint to sell off spectrum licenses network access as well as the
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subsidiaries boost mobile and virgin mobile to television provider dish which
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will build out its own mobile network it's all a little messy but at least one
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good thing coming out of it the doj is also requiring dish and the new team
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mobile as the combined company will apparently be called to support e-sim
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technology which would see the elimination of physical and annoyingly
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small sim cards do you have a joke i was gonna write one but then i just wrote
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joke you just wrote joke okay and that's a joke
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at bethesda's quakecon event this week the company announced that the original
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doom doom 2 and doom 3 are all available on nintendo switch playstation 4 and
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xbox one nowadays it's a bit of a battle to
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preserve older games on modern platforms so that's pretty cool but what really
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isn't cool is the fact that you're going to be forced to sign into a b-net
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account in order to play furthermore the three original dune games were actually
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already available on xbox one as backwards compatible xbox 360 titles but
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bethesda has completely delisted those versions and replacing them with the new
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updated versions which owners of the original versions would need to re-buy
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really yeah stupid okay okay
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that's yeah that's now there's apparently some kind of
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loophole involving downloading the free trial of the old games that worked for
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some people and if you have the physical disk for doom 3 bfg edition you can
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still reinstall the old versions but
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really
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but if you have deleted them you just might be out of luck
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the new versions also add split screen play but they take away the previously
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blended no rest for the living expansion pack and
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all online play bethesda what are you doing we're used
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to just pedaling out skyrim until you're blue in the face but this it's it's just
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like a new type of evil it's 2019 you
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know what you gotta sign in now it's time for the
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quick bits brought to you by private internet access but what does it do i
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mean it's right in the name it's right there pia allows you to dial the exact
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level of privacy production that you need for online so with support for a
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variety of vpn protocols and types of encryption whether on Windows macOS
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Android iOS Linux google chrome firefox or oprah
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bia can protect you on all of them
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like a like a kevlar umbrella when it's raining bullets yeah how did you come up
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with that bia also features dns and ipv6 leak
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protection and internet kill switch which will block all traffic if the vpn
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becomes disconnected unexpectedly you can connect up to five devices at once
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check it out at the link below alright like you're swearing ah quick bits
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samsung has finished revising the design of the galaxy fold and has announced the
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phone will be shipping again in september the changes made include
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extending the screen's protective layer beyond the device's bezel so people
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don't mistake it for a screen protector because of course they would think that
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samsung are you daft additional measures have been taken to prevent debris from
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slipping inside the phone via hinges but that's not enough for t-mobile who say
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they won't carry the full because they already offer customers a wide range of
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the latest smartphones sure do they fold and break super easily
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don't knock it till you bent it
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in a completely unsurprising development turns out humans at apple hear audio
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recordings of people talking to siri as well contractors for apple told the
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guardian the recordings often contain confidential medical information drug
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deals sexual activities and all sorts of crazy stuff
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apples responding say it's only a small portion of syria crests that are
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analyzed by humans to improve dictation and etc
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at least we know using any digital assistant comes with the cost of privacy
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but it's particularly hurtful coming from apple they said what happens on my
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iphone stays on my iphone which is
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particularly confusing given i don't even have one ah don't worry it stays
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there okay you're good yeah i already gave up giving out
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damn it frank zappata the french inventor of the flyboard failed in his
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attempt to cross the english channel on the jet powered platform he got halfway
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to refueling station and then apparently missed it by centimeters and fell into
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the sea but before that happened he looked pretty cool and by that measure i
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think the whole thing was a success louisiana has declared a state of
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emergency after ransomware infected multiple school districts in
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sabine morehouse files on school computers have been encrypted and can't
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be accessed state security professionals are looking into the issue but this
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attack is only the latest in a rash of ransomware infections that have been
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plaguing various u.s cities not much other to say than that but it just sucks
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saudi arabia is planning to build a futuristic city called nyom
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in the middle of the desert the city will have robots to work for humans
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flying taxis and even a fake moon
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made of a flight of drones the home would apparently host genetic
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modification projects to create humans
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who with greater strength and iq yeah that
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got dystopian really fast as cool that stuff would be to see let's hope its
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builders have a change of heart to use the money for something like
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worthwhile like giving out free gaming
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pcs of all the things you could think of
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freaking can i get a free gaming pc please
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sure but only subscribe to techlink and come back on monday for more tech news it's
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good for you it's got nutrients yup that's why you gotta come back every
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time i have it for lunch every day what's going on